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Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 - on or shortly after 14 November 1909) was a Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, a noted writer, and the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. In 1900 he told the story of this in Sailing Alone ......

P G Wodehouse was a British writer known for his comic style. Besides writing short stories and novels he also wrote plays and musical lyrics. This comic satire tells of the invasion of England by several European countries. The invaders are slowe......

Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge fina......

That morning began no differently from any morning, though it was to be the beginning of all things new for Eric. This first sentence of Ethel Cook's book The House in the Fairy Wood starts the reader off on a delightful adventure. Written in 1918......

Roy Hession was a 20th century British evangelist and author. His post World War II work is well known especially among young people. In 1950 Roy and his wife Revel published their first book The Calvary Road. The nature of religious revival is di......

Diana Mayo is young, beautiful, wealthy--and independent. Bored by the eligible bachelors and endless parties of the English aristocracy, she arranges for a horseback trek through the Algerian desert.
Author: Hull, E. M.
Publisher: Book Jungle
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Sťamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulyss......

Dunbar was an African American writer in the late 1800's. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry and a play. His writing style is known for its colorful language and use of dialect. This story depicts the life of a Southern family thrust into the ......

1918. The author attempts to give an outline picture of Zoroastriansm, and then of Judaism when it came to be somewhat a fixed system in the post-exilic times, in order to give the leading religious, social, and moral conceptions in each faith. Co......

During the Civil War 5 northern prisoners captured in Richmond, Virginia decide to escape and take off for a South Pacific island in a balloon. Each man brings his own talents to the group and they are able to sustain life and produce the items th......

The Beast in the Jungle is novella by Henry James written in 1903, and firstly published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. This story deals with appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death.
Author: James, Henry
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Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format.† Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public.† Because of the original condition of many of these historical manuscripts, imperfections are possible.† The value......

Caruso was one of the world's most loved male singers and Tetrazzini was known as an incredible Italian soprano. These 1909 pieces on the art of singing are a must for anyone seriously interested in singing. These incredible musician's speeches ar......

This book begins with a series of humorous limericks about a Lady from Wales, The Old Man from Vienna and others. The second part of the book contains funny songs and stories. The Owl and the Pussy Cat is one of the more famous. Part three is full......

Marlowe was an English poet, dramatist and translator in the Elizabethian period. Faust is the famous story of a man selling his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. On a deeper level man's decay from choosing material things over the spirit......

The premiere of LILIOM" at Budapest in December 1909, left both playgoer and critic a bit bewildered. It was not the sort of play the Hungarian capital had been accustomed to expect of its favorite dramatist, whose THE DEVIL, after two years of un......

You have no doubt read or heard stories of the great wild West. Perhaps you have even listened to some gray-haired man or woman toll tales of the Indians and the trappers, who roamed over the hills and plains. They may have told you, too, of the d......

James Fenimore Cooper was a 19th century writer known for his historical romances and stories of the sea. His Leatherstocking tales including the novel The Last of the Mohicans are his best-known works. IN the Red Rover Cooper paints a picture usi......

This macabre tragic play was first preformed at the Globe theatre is 1614. The love story is based on true events from the 1500's. The Duchess marries a commoner and her two brothers exact their revenge with tragic results for themselves. The play......

Noted American poet Walt Whitman has created a masterpiece. Whitman loves writing about material things and the human mind and body. Whitman shows a true love of nature and man's role in it. One of the best known poems in the work is "When Li......